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: Skeptical Inquirer magazine
Vol. 21, No. 3, May/June 1997
- Buy this back issue
- Is the Sky Falling?
- Skepticism and Politics
- CSICOP News
- Media Watch: When the Media Tell Half the Story
- How the Moon Affects You (book review)
Is the Sky Falling?
A scientific consensus agrees that cosmic impacts have played a major role in Earth history and that they continue to pose a significant threat today. But there is a tremendous difference in the estimated dangers, stretching up to, or even over, the line that separates legitimate science from pseudoscience. Ten recent trade books are reviewed that span a broad range in interpretations.David Morrison
Collective Delusions: A Skeptic's Guide
Collective delusions are an important topic for skeptics to address as they have the potential to influence millions of people.Robert Bartholomew
Scientific Reasoning and Achievement in a High School English Course
The hypothetical-deductive pattern of reasoning, an advanced reasoning model common to science, can be effectively transferred to the study of English and improve both English usage and reasoning skills.E. A. Kral
Skepticism and Politics
For skeptics who want to be politically active, some options are more attractive than others.Barry Fagin
Columns
- Editor's note
- News and Comment
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- Bombing Suspect McVeigh a Believer in Strange Government Conspiracies
- Top Ten Paranormal Phenomena of the Decade
- A Curious Corpse for the Day of the Dead
- ABC Documentary Takes on `Junk Science'
- Data? Research? No Such Thing for Would-Be Buyers of `The Stimulator'
- Business Week Levitates Again
- CSICOP News
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- Council for Media Integrity Blasts Networks for Distorted Treatments of Science
- Nye, Aykroyd Receive Council's First Awards
- CSICOP to Become Shareholder in TV Networks
- Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
- Courtney Brown's `Cosmic Voyage' into Preposterism
Martin Gardner - Investigative Files
- Mystery of the Crystal Tears
Joe nickell - Media Watch
- When the Media Tell Half the Story
C. Eugene Emery Jr.- Psychic Vibrations
- Psychic Departures and a Discovery Institute
Robert Sheaffer - Forum
- Yes, We Have No Hosannas
Ralph Estling - The Courtney Brown Affair and Academic Freedom
- Scott O. Lilienfeld
- Follow-up
- UAB Final Report of Therapeutic Touch
Bela Scheiber and Carla Selby - Special Tribute
- The Darkened Cosmos II: More Tributes to Carl Sagan
- Letters to the Editor
Book Reviews
- How the Moon Affects You
by Arnold L. Lieber - Reviewed by James Rotton
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Houdini!!! The Career of Ehrich Weiss
by Kenneth Silverman - Reviewed by Massimo Polidoro
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Science, Mind & Cosmos
by John Brockman and Katinka Matson - Reviewed by Monty Vierra
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